Tag: exhibition
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Rediscovering Mary Linwood Creative Activities Day
Find out more about the embroidery artist Mary Linwood at this free event hosted by textile artist Ruth Singer. Saturday 29th March 11am-3pm at St Margaret’s Church, Leicester The day includes: Entry to the historic church and all activities FREE. St Margaret’s Way Leicester Leicester, LE1 3EB. Refreshments available. No need to book, drop-in whenever…
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Textiles and Care: Making Meaning podcast Episode 46
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Series Five of Making Meaning is here. A lot of this series will be focussing on textiles, although there will be some other stories, conversations and solo episodes coming up too. This week I am starting by sharing two of my talks from the Cultures of Care Group from the end of 2024. Cultures of…
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Map Making
Places and Traces project is developing quickly now. Last summer we went on walks and did wild workshops in the woods and orchards, and spent the winter meetings in the local studies library exploring maps and documents. Over the next few months we are working with artist Hannah Moreton to create a large map sharing…
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Mapping our personal histories
Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest. The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking…
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Exhibition: For Your Convenience
For Your Convenience : Exploring Convenience Culture through an Artistic Lens. 27th November – 13th December 2024. Norman Rea Gallery University of York I’m pleased to be showing a new piece in this exhibition. Make Gardens Green Again was part of my Land Shapes exhibition in my garden studio earlier this year. It is part…
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Places and Traces of the Landscape
My Charnwood local history and landscape project moves indoors this month In October we had the last of the walks and wild workshops outside for Places & Traces. We took a short ramble along the bridleway, the old road, on the very edge of Loughborough. It’s one of my favourite places to walk and it…
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Stitching Emotions: call for contributions
Stitching Emotions is a new contributory project to make a piece for a large fabric book to be exhibited in my exhibition ‘Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch & Life’ in Sept 2025. We don’t know Mary Linwood’s feelings about her embroidery practice but she must have loved stitching. Women’s experiences in history are rarely recorded and…
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Mary Linwood and Me
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Behind the scenes for the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to make an exciting project happen. I’ve wanted to share the story of embroiderer Mary Linwood for even longer than that. I’m finally making it happen. Over the next year I am putting together an exhibition of Mary Linwood’s embroidery from Leicester Museums…
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Front Garden Fragments
At the moment I’ve got a new work on display in my Land Shapes exhibition, including a group of pieces exploring the loss of front gardens from our urban landscape. Land Shapes also includes new work about front gardens by Mandeep Dhadialla, a project with Karen Logan and other land-based work by me, made during…
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Land Shapes Exhibition
Land Shapes is a new exhibition in my garden studio in Loughborough, Leicestershire Over the last year, I’ve been working on various projects around landscape, earth, gardens and nature connection through my Cultures of Care project. I’ve also been really fortunate to work with two other artists, Karen Logan and Mandeep Dhadialla on projects about…
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